Welcome To SlipAngel.com

After a weekend at a funeral, nothing picks you up like going to see your favorite emo-metal band, Silverstein, at the Hard Rock cafe. After circumventing Ticketmaster's convenience charges and spending a day cruising wireless stores for a new phone, we eventually made the trek down to Universal Studios.

Slip Angel has a court date, check engine light, and a dissapointing night with Max Payne

I feel like the events are a much larger universe are aligning against me, like a colossal magnifying glass purpose built to channel misery into my life. On top of the $248 Sunpass bill I just had to foot, I picked up a check engine light on the way to my interesting court date. More on this later.

On Stereotypes Involving Fruit

After months of researching the T-Mobile G1 and their plans for 3G expansion, I finally caved in.

I bought an iPhone.

This is the first Apple product to cross the threshold of my home, and with good reason. I've always been an advocate of the PC and an opponent of Apple for a few pathological reasons. These contrived arguments include but are not limited to:

All Interesting People Use Apple Products

It's true. I have friends that are writers, web developers, 3D animators, recording artists and video producers. They all use Apple products. Apple is either the hip designer drug of the commune, or the STD of choice. Either way, I feel like a lot of the individuality of computing is lost on Apple hardware (don't all Apple desktops look the same to you?). I was informed by my boss that not using an Apple actually docs points from my "creative person assessment" list. In a conversation no more than 5 minutes latter, it baffled him that I might want to change the system sounds on my iPhone to anything other than what Apple gives you.

Apple Eliminates the Stress that is the Foundation of Computing

I believe that there is some form of natural selection present in computers. Just like the tragic accidents of the real world, hardware failures, driver incompatibilities, and poor software integration beset PC users on all sides, yet they endure these tribulations and emerge victorious, probably with more peripheral knowledge than they ever expected. Like a DSM owner, but more tragic.

Apple is Hard to be Angry At

It's true. My iPhone has crashed 5 times in 4 days. If this phone was made by Motorola or LG, I would have cursed the Japanese hands that made it, but for Apple I have nothing but praise. This makes me angry at myself because I should be angry at Apple.

Cracked Apple software is Harder to Find

I have expensive habits

I've been told that this is just the first step into complete Apple subversion, but I am still clawing at the soil of reason, fearing that if I don't actively continue to resist their products that I will be cavorted to a subterranean lair where I will be assimilated into their insidious hive-mind.

Speaking of hive-mind, take a look at what Charlie is doing in San Francisco. I haven't been a active in their network since my pitiful creative attempts prior to the materialization of the first Natural Selection (I was called Freemantle back then), but I've been diligently following their progress for over 9 years now. Natural Selection was a drawling that Charlie did on some type of flowchart when I first met it. I wish I was in a position to help them.

Time has been in super short supply for me. At work, we relocated to an office and I somehow lost 2 hours a day in the process. That is somehow being balanced between this website, the race-life project, a piece of genre fiction, and another project that as of yet has no name. Time will tell if I can keep all of that up and still maintain a healthy relationship.